Children’s Neglect of Probabilities in Decision Making with and without Feedback

We investigated whether children prefer feedback over stated probabilistic information in decision making. 6-year-olds’, 9-year-olds’, and adults’ decision making was examined in an environment where probabilistic information about choice outcome had to be actively searched (N = 166) or was available without search (N = 183). Probabilistic information was given before choices as predictions of cues differing in validity. The presence of outcome...